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• Call For Help: GTD Between Two Locations and Operating Systems?

  Published: August 30, 2007, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Call For Help, Getting Things Done, Gtd, Operating Systems, Syncing

  any readers have home/work syncing tips for a home Mac-using work Exchange server guy? Let us and Darrell know in the comments.

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• Picnic file synchronizer released

  Published: September 4, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Bonjour, Picnic, Slingshot, Syncing

  Filed under: SoftwareWe last mentioned Picnic when the beta was released in June; now Objectpark software is shipping version 1. Picnic is a utility designed to allow you to synchronize folders you specify between two Macs on the same local network. By using Bonjour it requires little or no setup. Unfortunately, I see two major downsides to

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• Linux Tip: Automatically Subscribe to Your Google Calendar

  Published: September 10, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Calendar, Command Line, Gnome, Google Calendar, Linux, Linux Tip, Syncing, Terminal

  Linux users: Setting up read access for your Google Calendar from the integrated Gnome calendar (included with Evolution) can be achieved with one terminal command. In fact, it is surprisingly simple to set up a self-updating subscription to your Google Calendar. You only need to enter the following command once and your calendar will

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• The Truth Behind the Britney Spears Comeback from Hell

  Published: September 11, 2007, 2:19 pm

  Tags: Publicity Stunts, Lip Syncing Celebs, Concerts, Who Cares, Dumb Bitches, All Washed Up, Celebrity Sluts, Comebacks, Crazies, Trainwrecks, Celebrity Morons, Drunk Celebrities, Controversy, Celebs In Bikinis, Fashion Disasters, Celebrity Weight, Vegas, Wtf, Celebrity Royal T

  Sure, Britney Spears might be trying to blame Sarah Silverman and everyone else for her poor performance at the VMAs Sunday, but the truth is, she caused her own demise. According to Page Six, Britney not only showed up for the event late, she also had a cocktail in hand. Britney was supposed to be at a live rehearsal Saturday at 1pm. She

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• iPods blocked from synching with Linux

  Published: September 15, 2007, 9:15 pm

  Tags: Blocked, Closed, Ipod, Linux, Synching, Syncing

  Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable VideoAccording to the blog iPodminusiTunes, Apple has blocked the new iPods from synching with third party applications (i.e. anything that isn't iTunes). The most significantly affected userbase in all this is the Linux community, who've been able to upload songs to their older iPods using free software such

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• Geek Throwdown: How to sync two or more Macs?

  Published: October 12, 2007, 10:20 am

  Tags: Apple Macs Amp Amp Os X, Macs, Syncing, Throwdowns

  more than simple document syncing and perfunctory preference sharing. How about if your needs are more nuanced: Can it intelligently sync “~/Library” stuff like “Preferences” and “Application Support” for your apps (so that Quicksilver, for example, is with you and tweaked to perfection wherever

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• New version of Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS released; Adds support for MOTORIZR Z8, Nokia N81

  Published: October 14, 2007, 11:51 am

  Tags: Applications, Symbian, Oxygen For Symbian, Oxygen Phone Manager, Pc Mobile Phone Tool, Pc Phone Management, Phone Syncing

  Probably the single most popular third-party application that lets users migrate, sync and manage their mobile information from PC — Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS phones — has just been updated. Beside supporting new devices, Oxygen Phone Manager II for Symbian OS version 2.16 also adds some new features to the Phonebook,

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• Blogging: Blog Offline with Google Gears at Blog.gears

  Published: October 22, 2007, 9:14 am

  Tags: Blogger, Blogging, Google Gears, Offline Access, Syncing

  Inspiration for great blog posts can be fleeting, but a lack of internet access can leave ideas in the dust. Webapp Blog.gears uses Google Gears to synchronize with a Blogger account to bridge that gap. Blog.gears allows Blogger authors to create new posts and edit older ones and synchronizes the data upon connection. The offline editor doesn't

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• Syncing: Share a Firefox Profile Between Ubuntu and Windows

  Published: October 24, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Firefox, Syncing, Ubuntu, Web Browsers, Windows

  The CyberNet weblog details how to seamlessly share a Firefox profile between a dual boot Ubuntu Linux and Windows installation by sharing the same profile folder in both OSes. It's a very simple trick that involves the Firefox Profile Manager, and it only takes a few steps to complete. On the other hand, if your goal is to share profiles between

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• Gmail: A Better Way to Set Up Gmail IMAP

  Published: October 24, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Email, Email Apps, Gizmodo, Gmail, Google, Imap, Iphone, Mail App, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook, Syncing, Thunderbird, Top

  If you've set up Gmail IMAP using Google's instructions, you may have noticed a couple of snags—namely that your Sent Mail, Drafts, and Deleted Mail aren't necessarily matching up as you'd expect between your email client and Gmail. To remedy this, you'll have to tweak a few advanced configuration settings in your client, and weblog

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• Gmail: What Gmail IMAP Means for You (and Your iPhone)

  Published: October 24, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Clips, Email, Email Apps, Gmail, Google, Imap, Iphone, Mail App, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook, Syncing, Thunderbird, Top

  access, IMAP is a two-way syncing mechanism between your email client and Gmail. That is, if you mark a message as read in Thunderbird, for example, it will appear as read in Gmail. (Here's more on why IMAP is better than POP.) Gmail's IMAP support even syncs message stars, labels (as folders), as well as their Spam and Trash folders.

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• Iphone And Leopard: Leopard Loses iPhone Note Syncing

  Published: October 25, 2007, 4:45 pm

  Tags: Apple, Iphone, Iphone Leopard, Leopard, Notes, Syncing

  David over at Ars points out that Apple's removed references to the iPhone inside the 300 new features page under their Mac OS X section. Where before you could see a section detailing how Notes would sync from your iPhone into Mail.app's Notes, now you just get a small description of what Mail's Notes can do. No iPhone in sight. Was this removed

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• Oxygen Phone Manager II for Nokia and Vertu phones v2.16 adds support for latest Nokia Series 40 5th Edition models

  Published: October 31, 2007, 5:47 am

  Tags: Nokia, Applications, Mobile Information Management, Mobile Information Syncing, Oxygen Phone Manager, Pc Mobile Software

  for migration editing and syncing mobile information, and also “the advanced Nokia PC Suite replacement.” It has just been updated to support the latest Nokia feature phone models - including 7500 and 7900 Prism, 5310 and 5610 XpressMusic, 6500 classic and slide, 6301, 6267, and 6555. As usual, the new version is not just about

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• How to sync an iPhone over WiFi without iTunes

  Published: November 21, 2007, 3:20 pm

  Tags: Apple, Hack, Hacking, Iphone, Syncing

  the ante by including WiFi syncing out of the box, it looks like owners of other devices are starting to rig up solutions of their own -- and the iPhone setup developed by eddanx seems to come closest to the ease of the Zune. The system relies on the WinAmp plugin ml_ipod, which supports syncing to shared folders, and requires a jailbroken

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• Synchronize Folders with SyncToy 2.0 [Featured Windows Download]

  Published: November 27, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Syncing, Top, Windows

  Windows only: Synchronize the contents of two folders, either across your home network or on the same PC with a free utility from Microsoft, SyncToy. The 2.0 beta's been released and gotten smarter since the first time we pointed out SyncToy, adding smart drive letter detection (for when your USB drive gets assigned a different drive letter

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